master global, project- based learning in 5 simple steps
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Master Project- Based Learning
In 5 simple steps
Who am I?
Objectives Learn the simple, five- step process
for creating kick- butt projects
How to connect your PBL experience with experts
How to establish the topic for your PBL experience
How to incorporate rigorous content and skills
The typical project…
Complex structures beget simple designs
The well- designed project
Simple structures beget complex
designs
The 5 step process for good project
design.
Pick an engaging Topic
Find Collaborators
Create Driving Question
Envision Final Product
Align Content
Step One: Pick a Topic
Perfect Topic
Real World
Curriculum
Passion
Global Food Crisis…
Step Two: Find Collaborators
Who knows about this stuff?
Who are the best collaborators?
People who do this work in the real world!
People who have worked with students in the past
People who know people
What is the most important question to answer related to
this topic?
Step Three: Create Driving Question
The best Questions… Are questions people in
the real world are trying to answer
Inspire students Are simple enough to
understand, but complex enough for deep inquiry
Lead to a clear and concrete project outcome
As members of a new society,
how will you feed your population?
Step Four: Envision Final Product
What will students create to answer the driving question?
What will students create?Method of food production Persuasive Proposal
What will students create?
Simple structures beget complex designs
Align Content
Align Content
What content and skills will students need to answer the
driving question?
What will students create?Method of food production Persuasive Proposal
Creating food
production model
MS-LS1-7 Develop model to demonstrate
how food is rearranged forming new molecules to support growth
MS-LS1-6 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for role of photosynthesis
in cycling of matter
MS-LS-1 Conduct an investigation to
provide evidence that living things are made
of cells
MS-ETS1-3 Analyze data from design
solutions to create a solution that meets criteria for success
Writing argumentative
proposal
CCSS ELA- W. 7.1 Write arguments to support
claims with clear reasons and relevant
evidence
CCSS ELA- W 7.7 Conduct short term research projects to answer a question, drawing on several
resources
CCSS R.P.A. 1 Analyze proportional
relationships and use them to solve real-
world and mathematical
problems
MS-ETS1-3 Explain the relationship between
the physical and human characteristics of different places or
regions
21st Century Skills
Global Thinking
Innovation
Communication
Collaboration
The Five Simple Steps to create kick butt projects with your students
Pick a Topic
Find Collaborators
Create Driving Question
Envision Final Product
Align Content
The well- designed project
Where to learn more…
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